Bring Your Best Idea: Authentic Assignments & Activities √ §

Creating connections and solving real-world problems

Wednesday, April 12, 201712:00 PM - 1:30 PM

The Commons : 329

Motivating students, creating connections, solving
real-world problems - these are just a few of the aims and benefits of
authentic learning. Such experiences can be provided through a wide range of
activities and assignments in a variety of contexts, including role-playing
exercises, technology-based simulations and visualizations, problem-based
activities, case studies, and participation in virtual communities of practice.
What techniques and assignments have you used to introduce students to
real-life problems and practices of your discipline? How do you assess their
performance? What challenges have you faced in using such assignments?

For Bring Your Best Idea sessions, we (locally)
crowdsource answers to questions such as these. Please bring your best
authentic assignment or activity to this lively, collaborative, and fast-paced
sharing session. Each participant who has an idea to share will have two
minutes to describe it. No slides please, though a one-page handout to pass
around is welcome. After 20-30 minutes of sharing ideas, we’ll shift to Q&A
and discussion. Whether or not you bring an idea to share, you’ll leave this
session with new food for thought and several new ideas you might try in your
own course. Lunch will be provided.